Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-19
WORSE THAN IN 1881.
The Missouri Opens with q
Crash at BuiOrd and Bis
marck.
A Thirty Foot Rise at Buford and
Great Destruction at Bismarck
and Mandan.

the inhabitants have taken to the hills.
The break up above Fort Buford began
on Thursday with q fourteen loot rise.
This made the river bank full. The ice
having been affected but slightly by the
thaw from the breathing up Of the Mis-
souri, below the Yellowstone, a gorge
formed twenty-five miles below Bnford
and flooded the Little Muddy country
driving many OF the settlers from their
homes.
Yesterday the ice went out at Buford
and the rise had increased to thirty feet
at that point. II the newspaper record
is correct the rise which caused the break
up at Butord in 1881 was twenty feet,
SO the the coming rise is one to cause
lively approximations.
Yesterday morning the river opened at
Bismarck with a heavy rise, caused by
the breaking of the WaRhburn gorge,
some forty miles above Bismarck. The
rise at Bismarck was rapid and the mass
of ice speedily formed q gorge
below that city. At Bis
marck the ice carried everything with it
and struck the immense warehouse of
the Northern Pacific, one OF the largest
In the world. The workmen narrowly
escaped drowning. and in less than two
hours from the time OF the gorge the
water was in the second stories OF river
boarding houses. which had been built
on Whist vas consideredlhigh ground.
The work house, which is nearly 700
feet in length, was moved bodily over
thirty feet and sent crashing against the
bluffs. The loss on this building will
be over SIS 900. The meRdow land south
of Bismarck, comprising 5000 acres,
is one vast sea and the ice
is flowing over the newly made
channel in this body of surplus water ct
the rate of ten miles per hour. The river
at Bismarck, which ID usually three
quarters OF II mile wide, is now over six
miles in width. Northern Pacific trans
| will be unable to CROSS the river for sew
eral days, and Bismarck Will be the
western terminal for q week. Superin-
tendent Graham attempted to go TO
Mandan, but the water OIL the west side
of the river is flowing over the track four
feet and the fires in the engines were put
out, Mandan is submerged,an the people
in the lower part of the city have been
moving into the upper stories of their
dwellings. All small dwellings, on the
banks OF the stream have been swept
away or destroyed, and steamboats,
lying at Rock Haven are In danger. The
high trestle of the Northern Pacific has
been damaged. Bismarck and Mandan
have yet to experience the effects of the
thirty foot rise sweeping down from
Buford, which will reach that point BY
Tonight. What the result will be can,
not be foretold. With an unimpeded
river it may pass without damage, but
with q gorge 1t is liable to cause great
destruction.
A Bismarck telegram of yesterday
says:
Should the water rise much more the
~treEtle OF the Northern Pacific west O
the bridge will be carried away. This
~trestle is 8 quarter Of a mile in length
and seventy-fye feet high. The scene il
Wild and wierd. A group OF deer Wal
seen On the floating ice in the ohaDne.
of the Missouri this morning, leapinl
from one piece of ice to another in OF
attempt to reach the shore. Thus far n,
deaths have been reported, but many set
tiers on the lowlands are in peril. The
ice is hard and firm and brushes every
thing beneath it. An attempt is being
made to blow up the gorge at For
Lincoln with dynamite.
Herman Paul, o German settler Twins
three miles south of here, has just arri
we'd, having waded through flo yin,
waters neck deep, and in several placer
being compelled to swim. He states tina
he wal driven from his house by thu
flood and that he left O man and thre,
women in q house near his. Those PEG
pie are in ell probability safe at present
but if the water rises tonight they ar,
in danger OF being swept away.
At Yankton We can look for the Blu
: ford rise within a week or ten daye, il
is not held back by gorges. Betwee
here and Bismarck the river is not en-
tirely clear of Ice, though nearly SO, an
there is good reason to hope that th
food from above will pass us rapid
r and will give, us nothing more than
brief overflow of the low bottoms. III
r river here is now unusually low for thi
season of the year and in good conditio
to receive the spring food.
q No Extra Rates Of Insurance for I'll
Privilege of using Gasoline stoves.
The national board Of underwritel
have recently taken off the rate Of il
surance heretofore charged for IL
privilege OF using gasoline stoves. A
that is necessary to use q stow
is to have q permit attached to your il
surance policy, which is made witho'
extra charge.
l- Remember-that the Golden Star 81
n the New Davis-the two leading stow
in the market-are sold by
DUDLEY, RIoHEY & Gross.
For Sale-A team OF driving POM
young aud in first class condition. !
quire at j. E. BRDoE's atole.